Dave Van Ronk

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

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